23-Sep-2011 – After visiting beautiful confluence 44°N 77°E, which was among rocks and canyons near Ili river, we (Pavel and me) had breakfast and set off towards 44°N 76°E. Pavel was driving, I was operating as a guide, with the navigating unit and the map in my hands. There were good roads across amazing Kazakh steppe, then there was Kurtinskiy pass and the steppe again. And finally we reached the confluence among the steppe. So we left Alma-Ata at 7 am and by 1 pm we have visited two confluences.

And the trunk of Subaru was full of fishing equipments! Certainly we were going on fishing! Kurtinskoye reservoir has moonscape. The catch was modest, but we were full of impressions! The descend to the water was breathtaking, while ascent we made by stones by ourselves at some parts! We were back home at night...